Indictment: Mount Vernon cop filed multiple false overtime claims

9:28 PM,
Aug. 22, 2013

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A Mount Vernon police officer arrested this year after claiming four hours of overtime he allegedly never worked has been indicted on charges that he filed false overtime claims on multiple occasions.

Joseph Russo, a 15-year veteran, is scheduled for arraignment Tuesday in Westchester County Court. A spokesman for the District Attorney's Office would not provide details of any new allegations but court records listed the charges against Russo in a 37-count indictment filed this week.

The initial charge when Russo was arrested in February was first-degree falsifying business records, ...